ENGINEERING PHYSICS – I |
UNIT I ULTRASONICS |
Introduction – Production – magnetostriction effect - magnetostriction generatorpiezoelectric
effect - piezoelectric generator- Detection of ultrasonic waves properties
– Cavitations - Velocity measurement – acoustic grating - Industrial applications –
drilling, welding, soldering and cleaning – SONAR - Non Destructive Testing – pulse
echo system through transmission and reflection modes - A,B and C –scan displays,
Medical applications - Sonograms |
UNIT II LASERS |
Introduction – Principle of Spontaneous emission and stimulated emission.
Population inversion, pumping. Einsteins A and B coeffcients - derivation. Types of
lasers – He-Ne, CO2 , Nd-YAG, Semiconductor lasers (homojunction &
heterojunction) Qualitative Industrial Applications - Lasers in welding, heat treatment,
cutting – Medical applications - Holography (construction & reconstruction). |
UNIT IIIFIBER OPTICS and APPLICATIONS |
Principle and propagation of light in optical fibres – Numerical aperture and
Acceptance angle - Types of optical fibres (material, refractive index, mode) – Double
crucible technique of fibre drawing - Splicing, Loss in optical fibre – attenuation,
dispersion, bending - Fibre optical communication system (Block diagram) - Light
sources - Detectors - Fibre optic sensors – temperature & displacement -
Endoscope. |
UNIT IVQUANTUM PHYSICS |
Black body radiation – Planck’s theory (derivation) – Deduction of Wien’s
displacement law and Rayleigh – Jeans’ Law from Planck’s theory – Compton effect.
Theory and experimental verification – Matter waves – Schrödinger’s wave equation
– Time independent and time dependent equations – Physical significance of wave
function – Particle in a one dimensional box - Electron microscope - Scanning
electron microscope - Transmission electron microscope. |
UNIT VCRYSTAL PHYSICS |
Lattice – Unit cell – Bravais lattice – Lattice planes – Miller indices – d spacing in
cubic lattice – Calculation of number of atoms per unit cell – Atomic radius –
Coordination number – Packing factor for SC, BCC, FCC and HCP structures –
NaCl, ZnS, diamond and graphite structures – Polymorphism and allotropy - Crystal
defects – point, line and surface defects- Burger vector. |
Text Book |
1. R. K. Gaur and S.C. Gupta, ‘Engineering Physics’ Dhanpat Rai Publications,
New Delhi(2003)
2. M.N. Avadhanulu and PG Kshirsagar, ‘A Text book of Engineering Physics’
S.Chand and company, Ltd., New Delhi, 2005. |
References |
1. Serway and Jewett, ‘Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern
Physics’, 6th Edition, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Indian reprint (2007)
2. Rajendran, V and Marikani A, ‘Engineering Physics’ Tata Mc Graw Hill
Publications Ltd, III Edition, New Delhi, (2004).
3. Palanisamy, P.K., ‘Engineering Physics’ Scitech publications, Chennai,
(2007).
4. Jayakumar. S, ‘Engineering Physics’, R.K. Publishers, Coimbatore, (2003).
5. Chitra Shadrach and Sivakumar Vadivelu, ‘Engineering Physics’, Pearson
Education, New Delhi, (2007). |
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